Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Stroboscopic operando spectroscopy of the dynamics in heterogeneous catalysis by event-averaging

  • Jan Knudsen,
  • Tamires Gallo,
  • Virgínia Boix,
  • Marie Døvre Strømsheim,
  • Giulio D’Acunto,
  • Christopher Goodwin,
  • Harald Wallander,
  • Suyun Zhu,
  • Markus Soldemo,
  • Patrick Lömker,
  • Filippo Cavalca,
  • Mattia Scardamaglia,
  • David Degerman,
  • Anders Nilsson,
  • Peter Amann,
  • Andrey Shavorskiy,
  • Joachim Schnadt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26372-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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To follow in situ and in real time how catalyst surfaces respond to gas composition changes is a challenge. This study reports on an eventaveraging method, based on cyclic gas pulsing and software-based image recognition, that overcomes the challenge for large photoelectron spectroscopy datasets.